a sparrows nest
perhaps
inside the A-bomb dome
Kinichi Sawaki
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I stall
I don’t know how to respond
For the first time
I don’t have words of reaction
Of course the image of new life
Is always joyful, welcome
Wherever it occurs
Yet did it not close my eyes
To the atrocities
Do I still need to go there
Is that how we achieve our peace
By keeping open the soul
By keeping picking at our old wounds
I don’t know the answers
Nor even
Where these words ought to go
haiku mind
108 poems to
cultivate awareness
& open your heart
is by Patricia Donegan